Ryan Murphy and Brandon Wai Advance to Third Round of ITA Championships

Oct 18, 2003

With a 6-4, 6-2 victory over St. Bonaventure's Nikhil Murali, 11-seed Ryan Murphy advanced to the third round of the Omni Hotels ITA Championships. Teammate Brandon Wai also won his second round match, defeating St. Bonaventure's Alejandro Nery 6-4, 6-1 to move on.

In other action, the 14-seed doubles pair of Murphy and Wai fell in an 8-6 match to Princeton, while the duo of Rowan Reynolds and Chris Lawler fell to Martin Wetzel and Cliff Nyugen from Harvard, 8-3 after winning a tight 9-8(6) match against Virginia Tech.

Murphy will face Army's John Houghton in the third round, after Houghton defeated Harvard's Chris Chiou in three sets after dropping the first. Wai will compete against No. 9 seed Soren Spanner from Virginia Tech.